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Reading, writing and race

by Davison M. Douglas
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Using Charlotte, North Carolina as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon the most ambitious school busing plan in the nation. In charting the path of racial change, Douglas considers the relative efficacy of the Black community's use of public demonstrations and litigation to force desegregation. He also evaluates the role of the city's White business community, which was concerned with preserving Charlotte's image as a racially moderate city, in facilitating racial gains. Charlotte's White leadership, anxious to avoid economically damaging racial conflict, engaged in early but decidedly token integration in the late 1950s and early 1960s in response to the Black community's public protest and litigation efforts.
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

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  • Release date: May 3, 2023

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  • ISBN: 9781469606484
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African American Nonfiction Nonfiction

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Using Charlotte, North Carolina as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon the most ambitious school busing plan in the nation. In charting the path of racial change, Douglas considers the relative efficacy of the Black community's use of public demonstrations and litigation to force desegregation. He also evaluates the role of the city's White business community, which was concerned with preserving Charlotte's image as a racially moderate city, in facilitating racial gains. Charlotte's White leadership, anxious to avoid economically damaging racial conflict, engaged in early but decidedly token integration in the late 1950s and early 1960s in response to the Black community's public protest and litigation efforts.
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African American Nonfiction Nonfiction